SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 81 66 51
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.15% 9.71% 4.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.75% 35.48% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 52 42
10th Percentile £382 £351 £363
25th Percentile £413 £386 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £556
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -28.09% +17.11%
75th Percentile £576 £473 £638
90th Percentile £600 £586 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £438 £538
% change year-on-year +14.29% -18.60% +7.50%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 356 186 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.03% 27.35% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 109 143
10th Percentile £375 £333 £328
25th Percentile £418 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £575
90th Percentile £621 £615 £673
South West median daily rate £505 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +6.32% -10.38% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 32 94
10th Percentile £53.53 - £64.13
25th Percentile - £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.88 £77.85
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) Confluence
3 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (9.88%) NEC Housing
2 4 (4.94%) Maximo
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) Azure
2 12 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
2 12 (14.81%) Power Platform
3 10 (12.35%) AWS
4 7 (8.64%) GCP
4 7 (8.64%) OCI
4 7 (8.64%) Snowflake
5 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.94%) GitHub
7 4 (4.94%) Serverless
8 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.47%) dbt
9 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) WAN
3 3 (3.70%) Firewall
4 2 (2.47%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.47%) 4G
4 2 (2.47%) 5G
4 2 (2.47%) 5G NR
4 2 (2.47%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.47%) LTE
4 2 (2.47%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (2.47%) MPLS
4 2 (2.47%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.47%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Power BI
2 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.17%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.94%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.94%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.94%) Tableau
7 3 (3.70%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.70%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.47%) Metadata
8 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.23%) EDRMS
9 1 (1.23%) Power Query
9 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.94%) JIRA
3 4 (4.94%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.41%) Local Government
4 3 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.23%) Billing
5 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Developer
2 17 (20.99%) Data Engineer
3 12 (14.81%) Senior
4 10 (12.35%) Analyst
5 9 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Applications Support
6 6 (7.41%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (6.17%) Support Officer
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Integration Manager
8 4 (4.94%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) REST
2 7 (8.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (6.17%) JSON
3 5 (6.17%) SOAP
4 4 (4.94%) JDBC
4 4 (4.94%) Middleware
4 4 (4.94%) RESTful
4 4 (4.94%) XML
5 3 (3.70%) Kafka
5 3 (3.70%) PySpark
5 3 (3.70%) Web Services
6 2 (2.47%) .NET
6 2 (2.47%) JAX-RS
6 2 (2.47%) OAuth
6 2 (2.47%) Pandas
6 2 (2.47%) React
6 2 (2.47%) Spring
6 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (28.40%) Analytics
3 19 (23.46%) Data Modelling
3 19 (23.46%) DevOps
4 18 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.99%) Decision-Making
6 13 (16.05%) Agile
6 13 (16.05%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (13.58%) Data Security
8 10 (12.35%) CI/CD
9 9 (11.11%) ETL
9 9 (11.11%) Information Security
9 9 (11.11%) Validation
10 8 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.88%) Data Governance
10 8 (9.88%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.64%) Data Science
12 6 (7.41%) Customer Service
12 6 (7.41%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) Python
2 13 (16.05%) PL/SQL
3 7 (8.64%) Java
4 3 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.47%) C
5 2 (2.47%) C#
5 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.47%) R
6 1 (1.23%) Bash
6 1 (1.23%) Go
6 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 12 (14.81%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.17%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) Ansible
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) CASB
3 1 (1.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Oracle
2 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.58%) Databricks
4 8 (9.88%) NEC
5 4 (4.94%) Google
5 4 (4.94%) webMethods
6 3 (3.70%) IBM
7 2 (2.47%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
8 1 (1.23%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.23%) Braze
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce